From the Director

After 3 weeks (and a day), we have reopened the regular front entrance and lobby for the library this morning! We appreciate all of your patience with us, as we used a side door as the main entrance for the library during our renovations. This enabled us to give our contractors full access to the […]

If you have visited the library in the past couple of weeks, you have already seen that we have begun our interior renovations in the lobby area. Our project will intensify over the next few weeks, with contractors coming into the lobby to do work with the electrical, walls, and flooring. Therefore, beginning on Monday, […]

As previously announced, the Orion Township Public Library will be undergoing some interior renovations over the next six months or so. We will be working in our Youth area and our Lobby area, but we will start in the Lobby. We will likely begin some of the initial work in the next few weeks, removing […]

Following President Obama’s State of the Union address last night, the American Library Association (ALA) President issued this press release, emphasizing how libraries continue to hold a very important role in our communities today. http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2014/01/america-s-libraries-are-rung-ladder-opportunity

It usually saddens me to see August come to an end, as it generally means the end of summer and that cooler weather will be coming our way. But fall is a beautiful season in Michigan, and as the kids go back to school today, the Library’s fall activities will keep you going. Hopefully you […]

Our Strategic Planning Committee had our final meeting on Monday, August 12th to finalize the documents that will be presented at our Library Board meeting tomorrow night, Thursday, August 15th. The final plan as well as some background information is available for your review. If all is approved by the Library Board, these documents will […]

For those of you following our progress, I wanted to update you with the latest set of meeting minutes from our Strategic Planning Steering Committee. The committee met again last night, 7-29-2013, and had another very productive meeting. We are focused on editing what will become our final document, listing our Strategic Focus Areas, our […]

As many of you probably know, we had to close the Library on Monday & Tuesday of this week because we did not have any power! The problem was with a DTE transformer, and our power went out just before 9am on Monday morning, 7/22. Partial power was restored by this morning, Wednesday 7/24, and […]

For those of you who are following our planning project, I am going to share the meeting minutes from the latest Strategic Planning Steering Committee meeting, which was this past Monday, July 15th. Please keep in mind that this is a project in-process, so our discussion and decisions are evolving as we move along through […]

Thank you all very much for your participation in our Strategic Planning project. We had 93 stakeholders attend a focus group in early June, and we received 864 completed online surveys!!! WOW! Thank you all so much. And congratulations to the winners (we ended up with 2 gift cards to give away) of our random […]

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